unemployment benefit claims down. worker productivity up. auto sales rising. home builders increasing construction. manufacturing expansion. gains in retail sales. and consumer confidence at the highest level since a year before president obama took office. tomorrow morning at about 8:30 a.m. eastern, we will know if those positive indicators since the last time we got a jobs report mean that we're about to get another good jobs report. if so, that would be very good news for the country. it would also be good news for the president's re-election efforts. if the jobs number is not a good number tomorrow morning, the right will be all over the president for having a bad number. if the number is a good number, the right will not be all over that number. the right will deny that that number is true. if last month's past is prologue. the right and left used to fight about what to do in the country. now the right fights with the whole rest of the country about what is true. >>> remember the long gas lines of the 1970s that were the result of the opec embargo? maybe